"Dementia is sad but there can be gifts" says Paul DeAdder in a post he made during Halifax Pride. He shared how he had painted himself into a rainbow corner before coming out to his mother in 1990. And by his own account, it was "awkward, ungraceful and brutal" and didn't go over well. And for years there was a wedge between himself and his mother, Marilyn. But after a diagnosis of dementia, and prior to her death last year, Paul says he got to come out a few dozen more times to her. And each time was better than the last. Here's Paul's story about Marilyn and those unexpected gifts.
